Night Skies (2006/UFOs)
Picture:
C Sound: C+ Extras: C- Feature: D
In the
1970s, there was a U.F.O. craze that no film has documented well and no
imitator of the new X-Files era of
such programs have come close to capturing.
Roy Knyrim’s Night Skies
(2005) tries to build a fictional Horror tale around a 1997 incident where
mysterious lights were seen in the sky and never identified. Again, this happens around Las Vegas, but
this 84 minutes-long torture test imagines killer aliens instead of U.S.
Government air experiments and is really, really, really bad.
Eric
Miller’s script is awful, the acting is lame and the narrative laughably
pointless. I knew we were in trouble
when footage of Senator John McCain is shown talking about the lights in a
very, very cheap attempt to add credibility to this wreck of a project. At first, it looks like Hills Have Eyes lite, then it gets much worse. Jason Connery is the lead and Michael Dorn
surfaces for a bit and both are wasted along with the unknown cast and the time
of the viewer. Skip this one!
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image originates on digital video and looks
bad, one of the poorest for such a production we have seen lately. It is so lame that the stock NTSC video does
not look much worse. The Dolby Digital
5.1 mix has no real surrounds and is front-heavy and weak. The combination is annoying even for such a
short production. The only extras are
trailers for other Sony releases.
- Nicholas Sheffo
